Word: hdc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Loeb Advisory Committee has decided to take all decisions concerning the choice of both plays and directors out of the hands of undergraduate organizations. An expanded Committee of five faculty members and four undergraduates (three from the HDC) will now put out a list of acceptable plays and choose directors for them from a list of acceptable directors--prepared, of course, by the Committee. This was done to avoid the inefficiency and wasted effort which have, since the construction of the Loeb Drama Center, hampered the selection of plays. The unfortunate effect of this new change--designed to reform genuine...
...scheme is a blow to student organizations and to student initiative. Until now, organizations like the Gilbert and Sullivan Players, the Opera Guild and the HDC, and others more ephemeral, such as House groups, have been the life of Harvard Drama. Under the new system these groups have no choice but to accept what the Committee gives them in the way of plays and directors. The alternatives are taking their productions elsewhere or disbanding. Members who wish to produce in Loeb will have to spend their time getting on the Committee's list of acceptable directors. And the make...
Clearly the Committee thinks that the HDC will remain the voice of the undergraduate: three of its four undergraduates are from the HDC and it will retain control of the Loeb experimental theatre. But the HDC should not have settled for so little. The experimental theatre has not yet become significant in Harvard drama, and the student members of the Committee are likely to find themselves mere recipients of faculty ideas, just as the present student members of the Committee have readily accepted the new Loeb plan...
...with the coming of the Loeb, this vitality could be lost. Already there is in the HDC a group that favors loosening of organizational ties through the club's co-operation and perhaps co-sponsorship with other groups. Their ultimate aim is apparently a single large body of actors and technicians orbiting about the Loeb under the general heading of Harvard Dramatic Club. Their aim is honorable: they feel such a single group would give undergraduates a stronger hand in bargaining with the theatre's administration. But certainly there are objections and alternatives to their proposal. The multiplicity of producing...
...HDC faces exactly this choice now; only one of its proposed spring shows was accepted by the Loeb Student-Faculty Advisory Committee. Unless the club's members are resigned either to accept the dictates of the committee or to strive for a Harvard dramatic octopus, they should present their second play outside the Loeb. After all, plays have been given in the Fogg Museum courtyard...